Zazzle's Christmas Commercial

[Doodles]

Just wanted to say thanks for the awesome Christmas Commercial that you are running for Zazzle on the Christmas Movies channel it is so cute!

[Westerngirl2]

YES! I just saw it on FoxNews. It's wonderful! and we've wanted to see this for soooooooo long! Thank you, thank you!

[LynnRose]

Presume the new adverts are these ones

[Doodles]

I seen the first one on the Hallmark channel it's a great place to run one for sure

[CrazyMermaid]

That is where I saw it last night and it made me so happy!

[Barbara]

Nicely done! A small caveat is that people are increasingly dropping most or all cable, the availability of TV's with built-in Roku making it an easy decision. (We stream exclusively.) I've noticed companies both large and small that advertise on YouTube, generally with 10 to 15-second commercials. (I'm not sure that angle is up to snuff yet because I keep seeing complete mismatches of ads with channels.)

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[DoloresDesigns]

I don't have cable and I saw the commercial on whatever show I was watching with my antenna. 

[Barbara]

What you receive via antenna is also carried by cable, but it's the plethora of streaming, digital-only channels that are now a flowering market. One company taking full advantage of it is Target. (Thankfully, big pharma hasn't yet overrun the shows with scary ads. 😮 )

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[Connie]

I DETEST YouTube ads with a passion!!!!! (Unless they are ads for The Mandalorian!) They interrupt all the videos I try to watch, and even my music playlists, and make me a lot less likely to support those companies. I would really hate to see Zazzle ads there!

[KeegansCreation]

That's a nice commercial. I just stream so I haven't seen it. I do stream a lot of Hulu which has ads in the shows. Hulu would be a good fit for this ad.

[plumb4me]

I see it a couple times a day on Youtube TV. I was so excited, I had to tell my husband and daughter. They said, oh I've seen it, I said why didn't you tell me. 🙂

[Barbara]

@plumb4me  YouTube TV is an alternative to cable (and is somewhat cheaper) wherein you can stream the various TV channels. So, in the end, you're still watching regular TV but via a different vehicle.

I still think Zazzle should advertise on YouTube.

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[Marcia]

They do. I've seen 15 sec spots of theirs in the past.

[Barbara]

I saw a Z commercial on TV once last year. That's the only time, and now I'm wondering why, if the ads are also on YouTube, I haven't seen any. It must be because of the kind of YouTube videos I watch. I mean really, why would they choose series such as Time Team, Perspective, Her Homestead Skills, Hope for Paws, and Bernadette Banner? An old lady interested in archaeology, art, homesteading, animal rescue, and recreating Edwardian fashion would be a lost cause for hip sorts of youthful items, right? LOL

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[Connie]

That's really disappointing! And those short ads are usually the ones they don't let you skip! I absolutely DETEST ads on YouTube!!!!!

[WolfMoonArt]

I have not seen their TV ads, but it's awesome to know they are getting the work out there now. When I tell people I sell on Zazzle they have no idea what I'm talking about.

[Barbara]

As annoying as some of the YT ads might be, without them, we wouldn't be seeing some of the great content people are producing. It's how some of them earn an actual living. At least we don't have to live through stretches of five or more commercials in a row like we do on standard TV. You can pay for those videos by subscribing to the ad-free version of YT. Either way, the YouTubers deserve compensation.

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[Connie]

There were plenty of great YouTube videos before the ads disrupted everything. I don't usually watch videos from people who make their living at that anyway. At the very least, we should be able to skip the ads, like we used to be able to. But now more and more are unskippable, and you have to watch at least 2. Pretty soon it will be as many ads as on TV.

It's way too expensive to pay for the ad-free version, just to make Google even richer than they already are.

[Barbara]

I see what you're talking about because it's true there are those who monetize just in case they can make a living at it, which they won't. I never watch YouTube on anything but my TV, which is perfect for my interests, mostly history of all kinds, and those shows need support to keep going. It definitely depends on perspective.

I agree with you about the worry of YouTube turning into what TV has become--shows created to support commercials. I recently decided the only show left on TV that I watched would become part of my past. Nine commercials in a row that took 8 minutes to run?! Not for me.

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[Connie]

Zazzle's on YouTube now! 😢 I got their ad twice on an old Alabama video (High Cotton). It was a boring ad, too, about customizing cards, nothing like the ones linked earlier in this thread.

[Barbara]

Extremely curious, I looked up how advertisers target their audiences, and in the description, this popped out at me: "Based on what you search for and what you do, YouTube (and its parent company, Google) can usually estimate what gender and age you are, as well as your interests," and this is how (along with other things), we get targeted. It then went on to explain how it can easily go awry. For instance, I watch a lot of videos that men might also be interested in, and so I get a lot of ads for trucks, something I'm not at all into. Google probably thinks I'm androgynous and immortal, something Zazzle isn't interested in, and rightly so.

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[chefcateringbiz]

Saw one streaming on Tubi the other day.